Henry Carter Hull

RHYMES OF A ROUGHNECK BY PAT O'COTTER 1918 DEDICATED TO ALASKA The home of the tin can and dog, A waste of snow, ice, and moss. The graveyard of ambitions, The by-word for hell, The home of the famed double cross. Men come here for gold, Ambitious for wealth They stick—for they can't get away, They dig, drink, and die, And then go to hell, To pay for their last sucker play— ALASKA CONTENTS THE BIRTH OF THE LAND A WOMAN, A...

The poems garnered up in this little volume were written at different periods in the life of the author, dating from her early girlhood up to recent years. They were not written with a view of making a book, each poem being the spontaneous outpouring of a deeply poetic nature and called forth by some experience that claimed her attention... (Excerpt from the Preface)

A collection of poems by George Meredith, including "The Two Masks," "Archduchess Anne," and "The Young Princess," among others

A collection of poems by Walter Richard Cassels (1826 – 1907), an English poet and theological critic best known as the author of "Supernatural Religion" (1874). (Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an American author and poet. Her works include "Poems of Passion and Solitude," which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, "The Worlds and I," was published in 1918, a year before her death. (Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of minor, classic poems by authors including Thackeray, Longfellow, Milton, Tennyson, and others.

Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared 1898. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated...

Nineteen nonsense verses taken from the author's "Book of Nonsense". This volume includes the poems from "Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses" and "Pelican Chorus and Other Nonsense Verses" published separately.

George Pope Morris (1802 – 1864) was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. This volume contains a collection of his poetry.

A collection of poems by Samuel Rogers, an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. (Source: Wikipedia)